Archive (14 life histories found)

I was not very happy in Botswana although the wages were much better than anywhere else I had worked, especially with the conversion rate of three Zim dollars to a Pula. There were a lot more of this world's goods available in Botswana as well, and I…

The following April, I was asked to go to Gweru to collect the promised truck-a Nissan Hi-lux single cab. I was overjoyed. At last I believed that my mission was about to begin. Well I suppose it did in a way but it was not what I had envisaged. The…

There were few farewell parties for me and when I was ready to travel, Cecilia and Fr Ciaran Dallat accompanied me to London, where I stayed with Aidan O'Kane in Conway House (an Irish Centre Housing hostel for men in QuexRoad, Kilburn) for a couple…

Awaiting me in Helen's Bay, was a message to telephone Sr.M. Emilian. She wanted to see me next morning in Fruithill Park, where she was now living in the Generalate, having been elected Mother General of the Down and Connor Sisters of Mercy. She…

I now take up my story on 14th August 1975, the day I made my first profession in the Convent of Mercy, Crumlin Road. That was a wonderful day and I was so excited about going forward and taking my temporary vows of poverty, chastity, obedience and…

Sr. M. Angela Deignan was very good to me that summer. She invited me to her home outside Granard for a week. We had a wonderful time of it travelling around Longford and Roscommon and seeing parts of the country I had never seen. I would accompany…

These works describe the ethos of the Mercy order of sisters to which Rosemary McCloskey belonged

A picture of Rosemary McCloskey with her car

A picture of Rosemary McCloskey taken outside the house she lived in while working in the Assisi Mission in Harare. This is the back view since the house was built back to front!

A picture of Rosemary McCloskey with her housemates who lived and worked with her in the Assisi mission in Zimbabwe